"Cape Cod Dunes"

Here for your consideration is a very finely executed watercolor by the New England artist, John Cuthbert Hare of the dunes of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Condition is excellent. Signed by the artist lower right. Circa 1960. Professionally matted. Overall mat size is 16 by 20 inches. Presently unframed. Provenance: Massachusetts estate.

New England painter John Cuthbert Hare was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1908 and studied commercial art at the Pratt Institute in New York City and later at the Art Students League also in New York City. He also studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York followed by employment with the Hearst Newspaper Corporation. For a number of years after his marriage in 1933, Hare and his wife traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Hare was a member of the Provincetown Art Colony, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and was to become known as the "Dean of Cape Cod Artists". The Hares first visited the artists' colony in St. Augustine, FL in 1935 and again in 1937, at which time he joined the St. Augustine Art Associations and set up a studio. Around 1938 they moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, and Hare traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts where he painted coastal scenes. In 1967 they were back on Cape Cod at Yarmouthport, and in 1977 they made their final move to Palm Beach, Florida. He died in 1978.